User talk:Marcomgael

June 2022

Hello Marcomgael. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Marcomgael. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Marcomgael|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. ElKevbo (talk) 22:30, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ElKevbo,

Thank you for your note. I am an employee at Iona College and have been asked to update the Wikipedia page. To clarify, the request is for me to note that on the user template of the Marcomgael account, correct? Thank you! Marcomgael (talk) 18:37, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the template to your user page. — Diannaa (talk) 19:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! To clarify, can I make edits being that I am an employee? Or is that not allowed? Marcomgael (talk) 20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In general, you should not make edits to articles about your employer(s). You are welcome and encouraged to make suggestions and request in the article's Talk page, however! If you do that and don't get a timely response, feel free to ping me or drop a note at WT:UNI. ElKevbo (talk) 21:00, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Marcomgael! Your additions to Iona College have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 18:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa-Thank you for flagging. Is it possible to know or see which content has been removed? I am an employee at Iona College and have been asked to update the Wikipedia page. Thanks again! Marcomgael (talk) 18:39, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There was some prose copied from https://www.iona.edu/academics/schools-institutes/newyork-presbyterian-iona-school-health-sciences — Diannaa (talk) 19:05, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quick response!

Yes - I grabbed that from our page. Moving forward, as I understand it, we should rephrase/write everything for Wikipedia rather than grabbing it directly from the site. Marcomgael (talk) 20:29, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is correct. But you need to place a request on the article talk page rather than editing the article directly please. — Diannaa (talk) 22:56, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Iona University Logo

The previous Iona University logo appeared with a white border around the Celtic Cross. This is not acceptable usage of the logo. I've uploaded an updated version without the white border. Marcomgael (talk) 20:57, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]